According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Committee on Conscience's mandate is to alert the national conscience, influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity.
According to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is defined as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.
The following resources will help educators become aware of the world around them and share that awareness with the students they come in contact with each day.
Books
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Ishmael Beah Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by: Don Cheadle Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by: Jen Marlowe As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda by: Catherine Claire God Grew Tired of Us by:John Bul Dau When Hate Lives Next Door by Aparism Ghosh
Holocaust Museum Houston
Under RESOURCES
Resources and information about Armenia, Boznia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Darfur and Rwanda
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
AIPR is dedicated to building a worldwide community of policymakers with the tools and the commitment to address conflict BEFORE it turns into genocide. AIPR is run out of offices in New York and Poland. It fosters leadership through the government, military and through academia.
Roma Genocide
Teaching resources, map, library, useful links
According to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is defined as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.
The following resources will help educators become aware of the world around them and share that awareness with the students they come in contact with each day.
Books
Say You're One of Them by Uwem AkpanA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Ishmael Beah
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by: Don Cheadle
Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by: Jen Marlowe
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda by: Catherine Claire
God Grew Tired of Us by:John Bul Dau
When Hate Lives Next Door by Aparism Ghosh
Film
Hotel Rwanda (Watch FREE online)Web Resources
Armenian Genocide Resource Library for TeachersUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Responding to genocide today, web resources, Committee on Conscience
Holocaust Museum Houston
Under RESOURCES
Resources and information about Armenia, Boznia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Darfur and Rwanda
Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
AIPR is dedicated to building a worldwide community of policymakers with the tools and the commitment to address conflict BEFORE it turns into genocide. AIPR is run out of offices in New York and Poland. It fosters leadership through the government, military and through academia.
Roma Genocide
Teaching resources, map, library, useful links
University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Studies
Articles, speakers, video clips that may be used in the classroom or for personal background knowledge